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FIRE ESCAPE. No. 481,923. Patented Sept. 6, 1892.

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FIRE ESCAPE Patented Sept. 6, 18,92.

NITED STATES PATENT ARGULAS A. BADGER, OF WINDSOR, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SILVESTER J. COTTON, OF SAME PLACE.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 481,923, dated September 6, 1892.

Application filed April 80, 1892. Serial No. 431,267. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: which is connected with any suitable point Be it known that I, ARGULAS ALONZO of attachment for suspending the frame or BADGER, a citizen of the United States, residbox from a window of a building or any other ing at Windsor, in the county of Henry and suitable point of attachment. 55 State of Missouri, have invented a new and A main supporting-pulley H is suspended 5 useful Fire-Escape, of which the following is from the hook F within the top of the box or a specification. frame and the central opening therein and re- This invention relates to fire-escapes; and ceives the top of the escape-rope I, passing it has for its object to provide an improved thereover and extending from either side of 6o [0 fire-escape which can be readily suspended the same around a Series of grooved friction from any suitable point of attachment on a wheels or pulleys J, j ournaled within the box building, so that the persons therein in the or frame on each side of the central longitudievent of fire can readily and rapidly descend nal opening therein. The said friction-p 1- to the ground without danger. leys J are arranged in opposite pairs on each- 65 15 To this end it is the main object of this inside of the central opening in said box or A vention to improve upon fire-escapes of the frame, one pair above the other, in any numcharacter disclosed by this invention,and not her desired, according to the rapidity with only simplify the same but also to render the which it is desired for the escape-rope to deescape safer and more easily manipulated and scend under the weight of a person. The said 70 2o t ll d, wheels or pulleys J are sufficiently wide so as WVith these and many other objects in view, to closely fit between the opposite plates or which will readily appear as the nature of the sides B of the said frame or box and thus prethe invention is better understood, the same vent the endless escape-rope from becoming consists in the novel construction, combinadisplaced while passing thereover. The end- 75 tion, and arrangement of parts hereinafter less escape-ropeI passes from both sides of more fully described, illustrated,and claimed. the main supporting-pulley H to the outer- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is most Wheels or pulleys in opposite sides of a front elevation of my improved fire-escape the frame or box of the upper op osite pairs suspended from the window of a building. of friction wheels or pulleys. The corre- 80 Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinalseotional view sponding portions of the endless rope on opof the device removed from the building. posite sides of the central pulley H pass from Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the said outer wheels or pulleys between the same rope frame or box. Fig. 4 is a detail in perand the inner Wheels of the same pair and spective of one of the body-supports. around said inner pulleys, thence back to the 8 5 3 5 Referring to the accompanying drawings, outer pulleys of the next lower pairs, from A represents a suitable rope frame or box which the corresponding portions of the rope comprising the opposite spaced plates B, are then passed upbetween said outer pulleys clamped together at their ends so as to form and around the inner pulleys of the same an inclosed boxing or frame to accommodate pairs in a similar manner to the winding of 90 Y the friction devices of the fire-escape. The the upper pairs of pulleys or wheels already said box or frame A is provided in the front described. The corresponding portions of the thereof with the central vertical opening 0, endless escape-rope are wound in a similar extending the entire length thereof and termimanner around the next succeeding lower nating at the lower end of the boxing in the pairs of friction wheels or pulleys until the 5 5 rope-opening D, through whichpasses the endsame reach the inner pulleys of the lowermost less fire-escape rope, to be presently described. pairs, from which both portions of the endless Secured in the top of the box or frame A is rope pass through the bottom opening of the the supporting-bolt E, projecting into the box or frame and to the ground. It will be frame and central opening therein and terreadily seen that when a person secures him- I00 minating in a hook F, while to the upper end self to one side of the endless rope the fricof the same is secured the supporting-ring G, tion offered the same by the several pairs of able rapidity and perfect safety, and that by grasping the opposite ascending side of the endless escape-rope the descent of the person maybe regulated and stopped at will.

Secured to the escape-rope I at suitable points thereon, are the body-supporting attachments K. The said body attachments K, which are suitably connected to the endless escape-rope, are provided with the securing-rings L, connected directly with the rope and having the waistbands N secured at one end thereto and adapted to engage the buckle N, also secured to said rings, so that said bands may be tightly secured around the waist of the person.

Secured to the back and opposite sides of the waistband are the crotch-straps 0, provided at one end with the snap-hooks T, which are designed after said straps have been passed between the legs of a person to be connected with the front securing-ring of the attachment, so that the person will be securely connected to the portion of the escaperope upon which he is descending. After being connected with the rope by means of this attachment a person can readily descend to the ground, as already described. The attachments described are so connected to opposite sides of the endless escape-rope that while one is at the ground the other is directly under the rope frame or box ready for aperson to descend, and that while one is descending to the ground the other is ascending to the frame or box ready for the descent of another person.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a fire-escape, a suitably-supported frame orbox, opposite pairs of friction wheels or pulleys arranged on opposite sides of said box, and an endless escape-rope passing over said opposite pairs of pulleys or wheels, substantially as set forth.

2. In a fire-escape, a frame or box adapted to be suspended from a building, opposite horizontal pairs of grooved rope Wheels or pulleys arranged pair above pair in opposite sides of the said box or frame, and an endless escape-rope passing continuously around each horizontal pair of Wheels or pulleys, substan tially as set forth.

3. In a fire-escape, a box or frame having a longitudinal central opening, a supportingbolt passing through the top of said box or frame, a central supporting-pulley suspended from said bolt within said opening at the top of the box or frame, opposite horizontal pairs of rope wheels or pulleys mounted within said box or frame on opposite sides of the central opening therein and arranged pair above pair, and an endless escape-rope passing over the said supporting-pulley and passed continuously around each opposite horizontal pair of wheels or pulleys, substantially as set forth.

4. In a fire-escape, the combination, with a friction-retarded endless escape-rope, of bodysupporting attachments secured to said rope and comprising a main front securing-ring, a waistband connected to said ring and adapted to be buckled thereto, and opposite crotchstraps secured to opposite sides and back of the waistband and provided at their ends with snap-hooks designed to engage the front securing-ring, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ARGULAS A. BADGER. Witnesses:

WILLIAM S. OWEN, B. L. HART. 

